Tomb Raider (2001) |
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![]() 2001 June 15 (USA), June 21 (Australia): The movie `Tomb Raider' opens, based on the video game of the same name, and starring Angelina Jolie as the heroine Lara Croft. Lara Croft drives a Land Rover in the game, and so it is in the movie.
Here she drives a V8 powered Land Rover
Defender.
(Almost all production
Defenders
are now powered by the Td5 turbo charged diesel engine.) ![]() This particular Defender is a long wheel base, high capacity pickup (HCPU)
fitted out with roll cage, roof rack, spot-lights, winch,
sand ladders, bonnet (hood) mounted spare wheel, and
wing mounted axe and shovel.
Inside the hose-out, checker plated interior,
is a fine set of instrumentation including a navigation screen.
Note just the two pedals, and the automatic shift. The `Bonatti grey' vehicle was fitted out by Land Rover's
special vehicles operation (SVO)
"in conjunction with Paramount Pictures."
It was shown at the Geneva Motor Show
earlier this year. ![]() Just in case you are not familiar with the video game, the original Lara Croft is a computer generated female Indiana Jones of improbable proportions who is in and out of action and trouble. Other Land Rover products appear in the movie:
Powell, the baddy, drives a
Range Rover
(that's vehicular type casting);
his henchmen drive
Discovery IIs.
Even the Freelander
gets a run
-- Lloyd Allison, 2001. ![]()
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